At the Fedora 17 Final Go/No-Go meeting today, the F17 Final Release (RC4) was declared GOLD and ready for GA on May 29, 2012. Thanks to everyone who came today, and to everyone who helped get the Beefy Miracle ready for public devouring. :)

Well, today is May 29, 2012 and I just completed the upgrade from Fedora 16 (Verne) to the new Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle). I used the unsupported "yum" approach to do an in in-place update. It worked just fine.

The biggest modification at the filesystem level is that these directories are now symlinks:

It's probably a non-issue, actually. Any reasonably competent ISP will have already checked their nameserver (DNS) settings, and those who use third party DNS servers know enough to have already checked.

The comment about FedGov servers using suspect DNS servers (in your article) has me calling BS. They'd be using internal DNS servers in the first palce (or should be), second--if they know the problem, then they would have already fixed it.

My webserver is still on Fedora 12. That would require a lot of upgrades.

Personally, I tend to let my servers stay old and stable. My main server is still on Red Hat 9 but with my own roll-your-own upgrades built from source (but then packaged into RPM form) for services such as apache, sendmail and bind to stay current. And X in any form (XFree or Xorg) has never been on any of my servers. In fact, the only editor I have them is "ed". In the event someone cracks into the system, they'll be so puzzled by its "interface" (to use the term loosely), maybe they'll just give up and go away. :-)

On my desktop systems, I stay quite current. That's why the transition from FC16 to FC17 was painless. It's evolved over the years from Fedora Core 1, upgrading incrementally when each release went gold.

I guess you could say that with servers, I'm a staunch Conservative but I'm a radical liberal (in the non-political sense of that word, of course) with my client-side units. :-)

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posted on 05/29/2012 11:49:12 AM PDT
by re_nortex
(DP...that's what I like about Texas.)

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